Senior Data Engineer — Ingestion & Data Platform Lead

Ryft; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Office in Manchester

Job summary

Ryft is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to own everything that happens to data after it is written. You will build the CDC and event-driven ingestion platform, delivering a clean bronze layer to analytics and enabling a warehouse migration.

You will work hands-on in a hybrid role based in central Manchester, with two days per week in the office, collaborating with the Data Lead and Analytics Lead on AWS, Dagster, dbt, and the modern data stack.

Qualifications

• Several years building and running production data platforms in an autonomous role.
• Deep AWS expertise across S3, IAM, networking, and ingestion services.
• Hands-on change data capture and event-driven ingestion concepts.

Responsibilities

• Build the ingestion layer to capture change streams into S3 and domain events.
• Own the bronze layer with reliable landing and deliberate schema evolution.
• Enforce contracts at the boundary between data & software engineering with clear change signals.

Skills

Senior data engineer

Python

SQL

AWS

Dagster

Airflow

Data pipelines

CI/CD

Tools

Snowflake

Redshift

dbt

Kinesis

S3

IAM

Job description

Ryft is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to own everything that happens to data after it is written. You will build the CDC and event-driven ingestion platform, delivering a clean bronze layer to analytics and enabling a warehouse migration.

You will work hands-on in a hybrid role based in central Manchester, with two days per week in the office, collaborating with the Data Lead and Analytics Lead on AWS, Dagster, dbt, and the modern data stack.